When researchers think about the interaction between language and emotion, they typically
focus on descriptive emotion words. This review demonstrates that emotion can interact with …

This paper investigates diminutives and hypocoristics used in asymmetric verbal
communication with pet animals in three European languages and a Semitic language …

This paper summarizes data from two case studies of how two families enact language
policies with the goal of cultivating early and additive bilingualism. The focus is on primary …

This paper investigates the pragmatic functions of diminutives in colloquial Jordanian Arabic
(CJA) in the light of Brown and Levinson's model of linguistic politeness. Analysis of …

For professionals working with multilingual children, detecting language deficits in a child's
home language can present a challenge. This is largely due to the scarcity of standardized …

When the 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope wrote:'Unlearn'd, he knew no
schoolman's subtle art,/No language, but the language of the heart'(Pope, 1930: 180; quoted …

This chapter explores the hypothesis that diminutive usage in child-directed speech may
provide multiple benefits for language acquisition. We summarize a series of experiments …

This paper investigates the semantics and distribution of two Russian suffixes,-in and-k,
each of which has been treated both as singulative and diminutive. However, we argue that …

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the acquisition of diminutives from a quantitative and
qualitative perspective. Diminutives in Lithuanian present an interesting case not only in …

This paper documents the occurrence of form variability through diminutive 'wordplay', and
examines whether this variability facilitates or hinders morphology acquisition in a richly …